1st Boy. These need no dispensation. Fancy can act it without more ado. A mad match soon shuffled up!
2d Boy. But what shuffling would there be, if any of these wanton gossips should cry out before their time?
1st Boy. That cry, my dainty wag, would be soon stifled. There be many ways, as I have heard my old grannam say (who had been in her youth a Paracelsian doctor's leman), to impregnate a birth, and, by secret applications o' possems[122] and cordials, not only to facilitate, but expedite, their production.
2d Boy. And what of all this?
1st Boy. Why then, Tim, the only safe way for these gamesome macquerellas[123] is to antedate their conception before their separation. This has been an approved receipt; and, upon a long consult, found so, and returned authentic. Joy or grief produce wondrous effects in humorous[124] ladies.
2d Boy. Thou art a cunning, sifting ningle for all rogueries.
SCENE IV.
Enter again the Ladies with their Platonic Confidants.
1st Boy. What! so soon returned? upon my life, there's some amorous design on foot, either in displaying of the weakness of those rams'-heads whom they have deserted, or some pasquil of light mirth to ingratiate their late-entertained servants.